THE POTSHERD
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To a layman like me it helps a lot To know a potsherd is just a piece of broken pot; To know, behind the talk of color, shade, design, It helped a hungry aborigine to dine; To see in this broken bit of clay A brown-skinned baby, clumsy at his play Cuffed by a weary mother, and whimpering so Because he broke a dish a thousand years ago! Hugh M. Miller
By special permission of New Mexico Magazine. Printed June, 1936.
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